BETA BLACKOUT
Thanks to whosoever produced this poster. During Flickr Blackout I'll be over on ipernity - don't want to get withdrawal symptoms!!!
IF YOU TOO ARE PROTESTING, I SUGGEST YOU POST YOUR IMAGE ON MAINSTREAM GROUPS SUCH AS FLICKRITIS; ONE A DAY; SCREAM OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER ETC..
This is why flickr beta is rubbish for my way of posting over the last 7 years.
#1 The tiny right hand side bar massively discourages anything other than very short comments. My contacts and myself have regularly indulged in lengthy comments and discussions because we LIKE to discuss and debate.
#2 The use of discussion and narrative is further discouraged by only showing the most recent couple of comments, unless you make that extra click.
#3 There have been many times when posting subsidiary photos has helped explain the context of the main photo post e.g. wildlife photos from a different angle. Although it is still possible to do this, they can only be shown at a tiny size in the right hand side bar. The extra click that takes a viewer to a larger size then means you can only see one image at a time, rather than being able to compare and contrast several images to build an overall impression of what the post is about.
#4 Tags now have to be manually entered. What a pain! flickr photos are a hugely useful resource for help in identification of wildlife. Will users now go to the trouble of adding dozens of tags? I doubt it.
#5 The change in the geotag system now makes it harder to instantly see where in the world a photo was taken.
I could go on, but above are FIVE things that are far worse for me under the new flickr beta system.
I've lost so many contacts who have given up on flickr due to the incessant changes. What do I want? I want the CHOICE to go back to the old system, which I am temporarily using via the Spanish language flickr version.
BETA BLACKOUT
Thanks to whosoever produced this poster. During Flickr Blackout I'll be over on ipernity - don't want to get withdrawal symptoms!!!
IF YOU TOO ARE PROTESTING, I SUGGEST YOU POST YOUR IMAGE ON MAINSTREAM GROUPS SUCH AS FLICKRITIS; ONE A DAY; SCREAM OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER ETC..
This is why flickr beta is rubbish for my way of posting over the last 7 years.
#1 The tiny right hand side bar massively discourages anything other than very short comments. My contacts and myself have regularly indulged in lengthy comments and discussions because we LIKE to discuss and debate.
#2 The use of discussion and narrative is further discouraged by only showing the most recent couple of comments, unless you make that extra click.
#3 There have been many times when posting subsidiary photos has helped explain the context of the main photo post e.g. wildlife photos from a different angle. Although it is still possible to do this, they can only be shown at a tiny size in the right hand side bar. The extra click that takes a viewer to a larger size then means you can only see one image at a time, rather than being able to compare and contrast several images to build an overall impression of what the post is about.
#4 Tags now have to be manually entered. What a pain! flickr photos are a hugely useful resource for help in identification of wildlife. Will users now go to the trouble of adding dozens of tags? I doubt it.
#5 The change in the geotag system now makes it harder to instantly see where in the world a photo was taken.
I could go on, but above are FIVE things that are far worse for me under the new flickr beta system.
I've lost so many contacts who have given up on flickr due to the incessant changes. What do I want? I want the CHOICE to go back to the old system, which I am temporarily using via the Spanish language flickr version.